My trail

5K in the dark, but the path was lightened by the snow on the ground. Well, a little accumulation on top of a snowy/ice mixture. Was fun to get the path all to myself, my trail. I'm only a few K off last week's mileage. I think this will be a good week.... one can only hope.

Countdown

There's one innovation I'm totally loving these days: the traffic countdown metre. The city has installed little countdown clocks at intersections that, when there's about 20 seconds to go, starts counting down to 0, in big, red letters. When I see them, and i'm in striking distance, I can shift gears so I'm at a near sprint to beat the light. Of course, the light still means that people have this weird belief that they can 'jog' across an intersection in 4 seconds (you can sprint it in four, and jog it in 8).

So at the end of my 5K, which finishes with me going downhill, I saw the number count down. I sped up to race speed, even past it, and make it to the other side as it ticked down to 0... more fun in the streets of Toronto...

The week

Okay, another week down the tubes. I missed my runs Wednesday through Saturday due to work, sickness and a little laziness. I'm still not 100% but I did a 5K run this afternoon and I think my body just wasn't ready to combat the cold while taking in exercise.

Oh boy, i'm going to have to kick things up a few notches to get in running shape.

Weekly mileage: 11.5K
Year to date: 121K

Grounded...

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Originally uploaded by yumkerun.

.. well, that was fun. Up at 6, at the airport at 7:50. We had to take a bus (this is Toronto, folks, shouldn't we have real airport terminals!) from which I took this picture.

So our flight was to take off at 9:15 and a few minutes before, we hear it's been cancelled. Oh well, my hotel bill is down the tubes and we made our way back downtown. As it turns out, tonnes of flights were cancelled or delayed. I spent an hour on hold on the air can reservations so I could cancel the flight back to Toronto tomorrow.. oh well, an afternoon in the city...

I'm leaving today...

... well, I did have a cold.. It knocked me out for about half a day and i took meds for two days. Right now, I'm feeling much better.

R. and I are doing a day in New York.. yup, one day. We fly out in 8 hours and will start a fun day shopping, eating, more shopping and more eating. We're not staying near Central Park so no run is in my plans. I hope to fit in a long run when I return Sunday afternoon...